Testing & Performance

We tested the heat dissipating capabilities of the Micro Fusion 350 using Prime95 to stress the CPU.

Idle temperatures were taken 30 minutes after booting into Windows with minimal applications running. Load temperatures were then taken after 30 minutes of Prime95.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition 200×14
Asus M2N-MX SE Socket AM2
Crucial 2GB 1x2GB DDR2 667
On-board GeForce 6100
Antec 350W
120GB Seagate Barricuda SATA 7200.7
ASUS DVD-E616A3
Windows Vista Ultimate Edition
Ambient temp: 20 degrees C

Temperature when CPU idle [low, medium, high fan speed]: 29.0, 27.3, 26.1
Temperature when CPU load [low, medium, high fan speed]: 38.2, 35.5, 33.7

As you can see from the results, the Antec Micro Fusion 350 with its army of three case fans does a great job cooling the system. Even at the lowest speed the temperatures are great and it becomes near silent. All in all, the case as a whole does its job and it does it well. We would suggest a combination of low and moderate settings for silence and performance.